APA (7th Ed) Guide for ESL

Reference list

TEMPLATE

Name of Government Department, Agency or Committee. (Year of Publication, Month Day). Title of document: Subtitle if given  (edition if given or Report No.). URL

EXAMPLE

Ministry of Children and Youth Services. (2016, September 12). Student nutrition program nutrition guidelines 2016

     http://www.children.gov.on.ca/htdocs/English/documents/studentnutrition/SNP-nutrition-guidelines-2016.pdf

 

In-text paraphrase

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(Government Ministry, year)

EXAMPLE

(Ontario Ministry of Children and Youth Services, 2016)

 

In-text quote

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(Government Ministry, year, p)

EXAMPLE

(Ontario Ministry of Children and Youth Services, 2016, p.20)

*Note: If your document contains no visible page numbers or paragraph numbers, you may cite the section heading and the number of the paragraph in that section to identify where your quote came from.

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Author's last time, First Initial. (Year of publication, Month, Date if given). Title of article. Title of Magazine. Website URL

EXAMPLE

Nogrady, B. (2020, January 7). How long will Australia be liveable?. The Atlantic

     https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2020/01/only-way-confront-australias-wildfires/604546/

 

In-text paraphrase

TEMPLATE

(Author's last name, Year)

EXAMPLE

(Nogrady, 2020)

 

In-text quote

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(Author’s last name, year, section title or paragraph number)

EXAMPLE

(Nogrady, 2020, para 6)

 

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Author, A. (date of publication: year, month, date). Title of article. Title of Newspaper. Website URL

EXAMPLE

Bisby, A. (2019, August 28). Making waves: How sidewalk labs will bring cottage country to Toronto. The National

     Post. https://nationalpost.com/life/homes/how-sidewalk-labs-will-bring-cottage-country-to-toronto

 

In-text paraphrase

TEMPLATE

(Author’s last name, year)

EXAMPLE

(Bisby,2019)

 

In-text quote

TEMPLATE

(Author’s last name, year, section title or paragraph number)

EXAMPLE

(Bisby, 2019, para 5)

 

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Speaker, Last Name, First Initial. Second Initial. (Year video was posted, Month Day if given). Title of talk [Video].  Website URL

EXAMPLE

Lythcott-Haims, J. (2015, November). How to raise successful kids  [Video]. TED Conferences.

   https://www.ted.com/talks/julie_lythcott_haims_how_to_raise_successful_kids_without_over_parenting?language=en

 

* if you find your TED talk on YouTube your citation will be a bit different- notice the different date

TED (2016, October 4). How to raise successful kids- without over-parenting Julie Lythcott-Haims  [Video]. 

   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CyElHdaqkjo

 

In-text citation (from TED website)

TEMPLATE

(Author’s last name, year)

EXAMPLE

(Lythcott-Haims, 2015)

 

In-text citation (from YouTube)

TEMPLATE

(Author’s last name, year)

EXAMPLE

(TED, 2016)

 

 

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Last Name, First Initial. Second Initial. of person who posted the video if known. [User name that posted the video].

     (Year video was posted, Month Day). Title of video.  Name of the website that the video was found on. Website URL

EXAMPLE

Brownlee, M. [Marques Brownlee]. (2015, March 27). Virtual Reality: Explained! [Video]. YouTube.

     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i4Zt3JZejbg

 

In-text citation

TEMPLATE

(Author’s last name, year)

EXAMPLE

(Brownlee, 2015)

 

 

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